Michael
Collins
mcollinsqc@fourlawmaine.com
With the
firm since 2006, Michael Collins was born in Howwood, Renfrewshire,
Scotland on March 4, 1948. He attended school
in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) until 1966. In 1970 he
received an L.L.B. (Hons) 1st Class degree from the University
of Exeter in Devon, England. In 1971 he was admitted to the
Bar of England and Wales, and from 1972 - 2002 he practised
commercial law from Essex Court Chambers in London. In 1988
he was appointed Queen's Counsel, and from 1994 - 2001 he served
as a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 2002 Michael moved to
the United States, and between 2002 - 2006 he was a special
consultant in the Washington DC office of Fulbright & Jaworski
LLP, from where he continued to practise as an advocate and
arbitrator in the field of international arbitration.
Michael has over 18 years of experience of sitting as an arbitrator,
and regularly acts in ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, LMAA, SIAC, ARIAS
and other institutional and ad hoc cases in jurisdictions such
as London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bermuda, Switzerland, Canada
and the United States. His principal areas of specialization
at the English Bar included arbitration, insurance and reinsurance,
shipping, and a wide variety of other contractual and tortious
disputes of a technical or commercial nature. In addition to
his frequent appearances in the English trial and appellate
Courts, he has appeared as an advocate in the Courts of Hong
Kong, Singapore and Bermuda.
Michael is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, and is a member
of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.
He is also a CEDR-accredited mediator.
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